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Biography: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon

Links and sources

Websites

Lilburn Residence Trust

The website of the trust which supports a composer’s residency in Douglas Lilburn’s home in Thorndon, Wellington.

Douglas: the landscape of a New Zealand composer

Listen to this 10-part Radio New Zealand series about the life of Douglas Liliburn. 

Bibliography

Harris, V., and P. Norman, eds. Douglas Lilburn: a festschrift for Douglas Lilburn on his retirement from the Victoria University of Wellington, 31 January 1980. 2nd ed. Wellington,1980

Norman, P. Douglas Lilburn: his life and music. Christchurch, 2006

Simpson, P. Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch, 1933–1953. Auckland, 2016

Thomson, J.M. The Oxford history of New Zealand music. Auckland, 1991

How to cite this page

Philip Norman. 'Lilburn, Douglas Gordon', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/133885/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).